WISE, a mission that will find ALL the neighbours |
WISE, a mission that will find ALL the neighbours |
Aug 27 2009, 08:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
I'm used to reading excellent articles by Emily, but this one I found to be of truly extraordinary interest:
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002070/ |
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Jul 17 2010, 01:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
They updated the text on the page that shows progress. (Now at 99.5%)
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/sky_coverage.html They say the red stripes result from the moon-avoidance strategy. No mention of the off blue strip, but, somehow, they're covering it now, and they say they'll be at 100% tomorrow. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-238 Some highlights: more than one million images so far more than 100,000 asteroids, both known and previously unseen more than 90 new near-Earth objects more than a dozen new comets The first release of WISE data, covering about 80 percent of the sky, will be delivered to the astronomical community in May of next year. Also today, they released a new pic of the Pleiades: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/new...se20100716.html Cool stuff! --Greg |
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